The Charlottetown Curling Club rink of Kyle Stevenson, Donna Butler, Doug MacGregor, and Tricia Affleck stole singles in the second, seventh and eighth ends this afternoon as they beat the Adam Casey foursome by a 7-3 score, to win the A divison of the double knockout M&M Meat Shops Provincial Mixed Curling Championship being played at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary.  The A division win advances the Stevenson team to the 2 pm Sunday final.

Tonight at 7, the Stevenson rink will play the Blair Jay team from the Silver Fox, while the Casey squad will play the Larry Dewar foursome from Montague. The winners of these games advance to the B final, Sunday morning at 9. Should Stevenson be in the B final and win it, he will take the championship without the 2 pm game. If not, the B final winner faces off against Stevenson at 2.

Jay advanced to tonight’s game with a 9-4 win this afternoon over clubmate Leo Stewart, while Dewar scored three triples, and followed a four-ender with a stolen single in a high-scoring 14-8 shootout against defending champion Bill Hope of Charlottetown. Stevenson won this event in 2006, while Dewar won in 2005.  Jay and teammate Douglas Simmons are on this year’s Seniors championship rink. Casey and teammate Anson Carmody were recently crowned Canadian Junior champions, while Geri-Lynn Ramsay and Erin Carmody from the Casey rink are reigning PEI junior women’s champs. 

The PEI Mixed champion will advance to the 2010 Canadian Mixed Curling Championships, November 15-22, 2009 at the Burlington Golf and Country Club in Burlington Ontario.